KEKA 101.5 FM is excited to announce we will carry the WORLD SERIES games! ESPN will provide coverage of each game. (See programming note below for more details)

Game 1 – Tue, Oct 21

Giants

@

Royals

W 7 – 1

Game 2 – Wed, Oct 22

Giants

@

Royals

L 2 – 7

Game 3 – Fri, Oct 24

Royals

@

Giants

L 3 – 2

Game 4 – Sat, Oct 25

Royals

@

Giants

W 4 – 11

Game 5 – Sun, Oct 26

Royals

@

Giants

W 0 – 5

Game 6 – Tue, Oct 28

Giants

@

Royals

L 0 – 10

Game 7 – Wed, Oct 29

Giants

@

Royals

W 3 – 2

*PREGAME 1 HOUR – ESPN

PROGRAMMING NOTE:

San Francisco Giants fans,

Congratulations on your team making it to the World Series again this year. This is the greatest time of the year!

We wanted to explain why KEKA 101 County is not able to broadcast the games with John Miller, Dave Fleming and Kruk and Kuip doing the announcing. Believe us, this is not what we want to do. However, Major League Baseball has signed programming contracts with ESPN for the radio broadcast rights of the entire season and the post-season Major League Baseball season.

As an affiliate of the Giants, our radio contract allows us to broadcast the Cactus League games, the entire regular season and the post-season games up to the World Series. At that point, KNBR as the originating station for our Giants Baseball network is not able to make available to KEKA the “local” broadcast (for us it’s Miller, Fleming, Kruk and Kuip). But they are available to the SF Giants affiliate network the ESPN programing of the World Series.

It’s frustrating for us not to be able to offer to you the same caliber of play-by-play with “our guys” in the broadcast booth, too. But we hope this summary provides you the background information to understand why the play-by-play you hear isn’t what you hear the rest of the season.

Coming off their second World Series victory in the past three seasons, there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic about the future in San Francisco. Bruce Bochy led the team to a 94-68 record and then straight through the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, and Detroit Tigers on their way to winning it all. Buster Posey won a batting title and the MVP award. The pitching staff overall was strong enough to counter a poor year from Tim Lincecum and the Giants return with nearly the same group for another season.

Listen to excited play by play action right here on KEKA 101 FM. Also get news, updates, schedule, and audio highlights of previous game.

SAN FRANCISCO (mlb.com) — If you can’t tell the Giants without a program, just use last year’s.

Of the 25 players on the postseason roster who propelled San Francisco to six consecutive victories in elimination games and its second World Series title in three years, 21 remain. Moreover, the lone Major League free agent the Giants signed from another team was outfielder Andres Torres, who performed for San Francisco from 2009-11.

Asked earlier this week to evaluate his ballclub entering Spring Training, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said, “I like where we are right now. I have to, because we pretty much have everyone back.”

Skeptics will maintain that, by standing still, the Giants are falling behind in the National League West. The Dodgers boast a highly paid, high-powered roster. Arizona added Brandon McCarthy to a solid pitching staff and Cody Ross to its lineup. Colorado hopes to have shortstop Troy Tulowitzki available all season. The youthful Padres should benefit from another year of experience.

The Giants have learned how to win. And if they need a reminder, Bochy will provide it.

“Your success is never final,” he said. “We know we have to move on and go to work.”